Digital Surrogates from the Demonstration of Sound on Film by Joseph Tykociner Audio Recordings and Video Tapes

Digital Surrogates from the Demonstration of Sound on Film by Joseph Tykociner Audio Recordings and Video Tapes

Date:

1921-22, 1954, 1967

Description:

Digital surrogates from the Demonstration of Sound on Film by Joseph Tykociner Audio Recordings and Video Tapes, contain a digitized film concerning Tykociner's contributions to research and innovation in sound recording as well as in the field of electrical engineering. The digitized film shows Tykociner's sound on film apparatus and demonstration. Includes images of J. T. Tykociner, Jacob Kunz (developer of the photoelectric cell connected with the new process), Paine reading aloud, and Manoah Leide playing the violin. This clip was produced from a videotape dub of a duplicate a film made in 1954 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in order to match the sounds of Mrs. Tykociner and the violinist. The original demonstration film was produced in 1921-22.

Additional material is available upon request, including a digitized audio recording concerning an interview with Professor Tykociner (March 9th 1967), concerning his early interest in the recording of sound and sound in moving picture; his experience as student, research engineer and faculty at the University; research and experiments with sound recording; career as research engineer for Marconi company, for German companies on radio telegraphy, for radio communications at Russian companies and the Army; his return to the US in 1920; his latter demonstration of sound in film; as well as about commercials and films using Tykociner's sound system.

Note: The digitized interview recording is currently nearline due to copyright statements, but permissions are to be reevaluated at a later date.

For more information about Joseph Tykociner and his papers held at the University Archives, please see the Tykociner Papersmain catalog record in Archon.

Copyright of the sound on film demonstration is owned by the University of Illinois. You may use this online copy for personal or non-profit use. Please contact us if you would like to use this information for publication or other commerical use.

Unique ID:

20979380-d3a8-0131-267e-0050569601ca-b

Additional Information:

Repository:

University of Illinois Archives

Phys. Desc:

This version of the film was produced from a 16mm positive film, 200 feet in length, acquired from Arthur Wildhagen on December 10, 1970. That copy is is a duplicate of a 16mm negative film held by the Motion Picture Service to match sound and images of Mrs. Tykociner and a violinist. The MPAA copy is itself a duplicate of the original film produced between 1921 and 1922. The sound track of the original film will not play in a modern projector.

The audio recording has a length of 32:23 min. It is available in MP3 format and has a size of 29.6 megabytes.